December 2011
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Yuletide philosophizing with one hand inside a...
If there’s one thing that cooking your first turkey will do for you, it’s give you plenty of time to reflect. I mean, when you’ve got one hand shoved up inside a turkey’s butt groping for a plastic bag full of neck and assorted viscera, you kind of have to get introspective. Or get majorly grossed out.
In any case, this is the first Christmas I’ve spent without...
November 2011
2 posts
Congress says pizza counts as a vegetable. →
Next up: Gushers will count as fruit. And we’ll all eat laying down.
It is a truth universally acknowledged
that a shoe perfectly cute in the display size 7 must be perfectly hideous in size 10.
October 2011
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September 2011
2 posts
When life gives you tomatoes...
… Make soup!
Okay, life didn’t give me tomatoes. Community-supported agriculture did, for three weeks running. So when my friends had grilled cheese night (that may have been life giving me tomatoes, since I had to abstain from the actual dairy), I found a handy way to dispatch those tomatoes and still participate: by bringing grilled cheese’s soul mate.
Admittedly, I usually turn my nose...
40 days vegan, day 35: sliding for home
On Friday, Irene texted me. “Grilled cheese night! Let me know if you’re coming.” She followed up saying they’d provide vegan stuff for me. But oh, how I’ve missed melty gooey grilled cheese for the past month, leaving me to conclude that by inviting a temporary vegan to grilled cheese night, she and Cass are either the kindest or most sadistic friends ever.
I...
August 2011
13 posts
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Trashy Vegan: So-Easy Jambalaya →
If only I’d read this BEFORE my two-hour adventure in seitanic jambalaya. Le sigh. Since I am soy intolerant (or as some might say, my innards are soy-bigoted), I did use seitan, but like she says, sauté it first. When I made my jamby, I sautéed the seitan for about 6 minutes until all golden brown.
trashyvegan:
PREP/ACTIVE TIME: 5 minutes
TOTAL TIME: ~25 minutes
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
1...
Editors on editing: Alexa Fornoff of ReadyMade
Over the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to speak and/or correspond with some amazing people in the publishing industry. I meant to post them online, but summer arrived, and with it came a new internship (and a great vegan experiment), and my good intentions to post these interviews were swept right out the door. Here’s the first of a few I’ll be posting: my interview with...
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You know what I hate?
theapartmentchronicles:
That herbs must be purchased in huge quantities. I’m sick of watching basil/cilantro/mint/etc. turn brown in my fridge. I just want to buy a tiny little bunch for my pasta/burritos/mojitos/etc. Is that too much to ask?
Definitely. I can’t decide whether the answer is growing my own herbs, trying to buy herbs with friends, or starting our own tiny-quantity-of-herbs...
Just in case you weren't feeling nauseous today →
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Carrot and Red Lentil Dal à la tropical storm
When it’s raining outside, the last thing you want to do is run to the store for supplies. Today’s lunch is brought to you by Hurricane Irene and ingredients I keep on hand at all times. Unfortunately, I didn’t have any ginger besides the crystallized variety, but if you have any fresh or ground on hand, it’s a great addition.
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 medium-sized...
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40 days vegan, day 28: ho-hum(mus)
A tragedy of snacking.
Last weekend, I went to my friends’ apartment for a Scotch tasting. Robert is insanely knowledgeable about whiskey, and now I can proudly sort of say that one time someone explained to me the difference between Islay and Speyside Scotch, and how to pronounce Laphroaig. Of course, you really can’t taste five different whiskies without getting a little hungry, so...
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40 days vegan, day 20: livin' on a prayer
Thank you, Jon Bon Jovi, for providing my anthem for today.
Also for posing as Sexy Jesus, but that’s another conversation entirely.
That’s right: the Great Vegan Experiment is half over today. Being halfway through it, I’m taking some time to reflect on my first 20 days without meat, eggs, or dairy.
This week was really great for me. Last Sunday, I’d mentioned to a...
40 days vegan, day 15: porto-hello!
Portobello mushrooms are the first great success (and the second petite failure) of my vegan experiment.
When people ask me why I’m doing this, I tell them it’s a test of willpower and creativity, and to introduce more variety into my diet. So far I’ve tried new recipes, but not eaten very many new things—I’ve stuck to potatoes and kale, beans, rice, quinoa, things...
40 days vegan, day 10: hell
Hell is working in a cupcake bakery on your period when you’re vegan.
Unless you work in a cupcake bakery, in which case, bully for you.
Last night I foraged in our cupboards for something, ANYTHING junky. Snickers? Milk chocolate. Ice cream? Ha. Goldfish Crackers? That’s cute. I thought I’d be better today, but then I went to work.
I work in a cupcake bakery. We make...
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40 days vegan, day 9: enchiladas are HARD
Yesterday was a big day. I planned on making a big pan of potato and kale enchiladas from scratch, thinking they’d make good leftovers for lunches during the week. And they will. But sweet merciful gods of garlic, enchiladas are not for the faint of heart.
First of all, I forgot my shopping list when I went to Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods, so I did the best I could to remember...
40 days vegan, days 3 - 8: problem customer,...
My careful plans to cook a lot in the first week of my vegan experiment were thrown out the window when my friend Werner called me from Texas on Tuesday evening to tell me he was coming into Boston for a friend’s wedding. I first met him while studying abroad in Paris in 2006, and even though we’ve only seen each other twice since then, my couch is always open to the man who fed us...
40 days vegan, day 2: leftovers and pizza envy
I unlocked the apartment door a half hour ago and the tantalizing yet ambiguous scent of oven rolled into the hallway. “Hi, sweetheart,” I called to Jason. “What did you make?”
Yesterday he’d been talking about making blueberry muffins since we have a carton of farmshare blueberries in the fridge. Blueberries aren’t my fave, so I didn’t really care that...
40 days vegan, day 1: hummus, curry, and the...
“I’m going to go vegan for a month this summer,” I said, all offhand and nonchalant.
At the time, I was wearing a sweater, drinking hot chocolate, so summer—and my whim to go a month sans bacon—seemed a long way off. Then about the middle of last month I realized summer was half over and I’d been blithely eating cheeseburgers every week, continuing my quest...
